- From: MegaZone <megazone@megazone.org>
- Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 16:54:33 -0400
Once upon a time Anne van Kesteren shaped the electrons to say... > For what it's worth, they have _always_ been optional in HTML. And you're > right, some people might do that. In fact, it was done wrong so often for I know, it was one of the things that used to annoy me in other author's markup - not so much using them or not in general, but when someone would quote some attributes and not others. Pet peeve. Forcing the parens was something I liked about XHTML - on the other hand forcing lowercase elements took some getting used to, since I had been in the 'all caps' school since I first played with HTML in 1991. Win some, lose some. :-) > <meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html; charset=utf-8> > > that browsers now all support a charset= attribute on <meta> for > indicating the document encoding. This is a bit cleaner, since the name=value structure is still intact. I see people doing things like: <a class=main title>text</a> When they mean: <a class="main title">text</a> And not: <a class="main" title="">text</a> Quotes are really only optional on single-value attributes, or it creates a parsing nightmare, trying to read the authors mind. -MZ -- megazone-at-megazone.org http://www.MegaZone.org/ Gweep, Geek, Human, me. http://www.TiVoLovers.com/ http://www.Eyrie-Productions.com/ -><- Hail Eris "A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men" 508-852-2171
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